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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1622.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1610.

2. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving on November 3 of what year?
(a) 1631.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1647.
(d) 1642.

3. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Namasket.
(b) Metacom.
(c) Wampapaquan.
(d) Nahauton.

4. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

5. Passaconaway is a name which translates to what in English?
(a) "Child of the Bear".
(b) "The Great Bear".
(c) "The Great Antelope".
(d) "Wolf of Night".

6. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1676.

7. When was Increase Mather born?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1639.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1642.

8. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Wigwam.
(b) Tipi.
(c) Shaman.
(d) Totem.

9. What is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life and was advanced by several theologians such as Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli?
(a) Puritanism.
(b) Helitism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Ordinism.

10. What is the name of an Algonquian Native American tribe from Rhode Island?
(a) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(b) The Mohegan tribe.
(c) The Nipmuc tribe.
(d) The Narragansett tribe.

11. John Sassamon's family died during the smallpox epidemic of what year?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1633.
(c) 1652.
(d) 1612.

12. How many houses in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 32.
(b) 27.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

13. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) John Pynchon.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Richard Callicot.

14. According to the author, the colonists thought the powwaws received their orders from whom?
(a) God.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Mohammad.
(d) The Devil.

15. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) Josiah Winslow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians?

2. What does the author say represented filth and chaos to the Puritans in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

3. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?

4. What name refers to the mostly Puritan and Pilgrim immigrants from Great Britain who settled New England starting around 1630?

5. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?

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